The busiest death chamber in the country is located inside the maximum-security prison in Huntsville, Texas, known as the “Walls Unit.” ...

Roberson said he was placing his hopes for another execution stay in the hands of his lawyers, his supporters and God.

For Charles Victor Thompson, the one constant in his life has been the almost three decades he's spent as Inmate No. 00999306 ...

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For condemned prisoners in Texas, the final 14 days unfold under a rigidly scripted routine that culminates in the death chamber. The Texas Department of Criminal Justice claims that its execution ...

A death row inmate from East Texas is set to be executed this week for the December 2008 killing of his girlfriend’s child in Rusk County. Blaine Keith Milam, 35, is scheduled to die by lethal ...

Gloria Rubac remembers the thick crowd, primarily composed of students from Sam Houston State University, and the way they cheered outside the red-brick Texas State Penitentiary as the sun set. Having ...

More than 1,600 prisoners have been executed since the late 1970s. The largest number of executions has been carried out in ...

HUNTSVILLE, Texas (AP) — A Texas man was executed Thursday for killing his girlfriend’s 13-month-old daughter in a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an “exorcism” to expel a demon from the ...

Roberson was scheduled to be executed by lethal injection at the Huntsville Unit in Texas on October 17. The Texas Supreme Court granted him a stay of execution to allow him to testify before the ...

A Texas man faces execution Thursday for killing his girlfriend's 13-month-old daughter during a torturous ordeal the couple said was part of an "exorcism" to expel a demon from the child's body.